Hello everyone!Today I should have written ''Recommend me a..'' post, but I've decided to leave that post for next week and publish a tutorial instead.Here is one of the ways in which you can make pretty paper Easter Baskets. :)

I made two, in different colours and with different decorations, but in the same way. For the start you'll need a paper or cardstock, it doesn't matter in which colour, because you can always decorate it.My papers were 20cmx20cm, but you can decide on your own, depending on whether you want a smaller or a bigger basket and what kind of paper you have.I used designer paper for cards and scrapbook, one doublesided.So, you will start with folding the paper. I measured 6cm from both sides and drew two lines ( it's good if you have a scoring board, but you don't even need to be very precise, even without a ruller, you can make these baskets). Then I turned the paper for 90 degrees and did the same, I drew two lines 6cm from both sides ( you can use a pen and then erase it). That left me the width of 8cm in the middle, which was going to be the base, a square in the middle of the paper - a bottom of the basket.

Then it's time to use scissors. First I cut the paper on the lines on two oposite sides, but only till the middle square.I also cut smaller rectangles 6cmx8cm, to decorate the inside of the basket, because the other side of the paper was white.Those rectangles I attached with doublesided tape on four rectangles like in the photo bellow. You can use glue, too.

Then it's time to put the sides together. Two middle rectangles, where we made the cuts, we ''lift up'' and put some doublesided tape or glue from the outside. Then over that rectangle we glue the papers from the sides, but so that only the tops of those papers overlap, so that the basket would be wider. For that we can also use doublesided tape.

To make the handle more stable, I doubled those straps, one thinner I attached on top of the wider one. Then I made holes on both sides of the straps, somewhere close to the ends and then I also made holes on the baskets, on the side where two papers overlap, somewhere under the top. Then I put the handles, so that the holes on the handles come exactly over the holes on the baskets and I put brads, by which I secured the handles and attached them to the baskets. You can also glue the handles.

Na red je doslo ukrasavanje. E, tu bas mozete da pustite masti na volju. Ja sam na ''cvetnu'' korpicu dodala par cvetova i vezala masnu sa jedne strane, a dodala sam unutra i jedan tag, gde cu napisati poruku.Now it's time to decorate. Here you can be very imaginative. I added some flowers on the 'flowery'' basket and tied a ribbon bow on the other side and I also added a tag insde of it, where I will write a note.